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Accepting Death on a Cross
Read pages 115 – 120. Answer the FOR REVIEW questions on page 120
Review Section 1
• What was the purpose of the Passover Seder at which Jesus
celebrated the Last Supper?
• On What day of the year do Christians now remember the Last
Supper?
• What did Jesus do when he blessed the bread and the wine at the
Last Supper?
• What do Catholic believe about the meaning of the Eucharist?
Aim: What is the Passion of Jesus?
I. The Passion is the terrible suffering Jesus is going to
experience for our salvation
II. Agony in the Garden
A. Garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives Jesus
prayed in dreadful anguish
B. Asked to be spared form “drinking the cup”
C. Trusted his Father’s love
D. Apostles slept
III. Arrest and Trial
A. Chef priest & elders came to arrest Him
B. Judas betrayed Him with a kiss
C. Apostles fled
D. Trial before the high priest
1. Accused by the high priest of blasphemy = claiming a
divine status & threatening the Temple
2. Mocked him, span on him, beat him 1/12
E. Trial before the Roman governor Pontius Pilate
1. Had the legal authority to sentence to death
2. Seamed innocent to Pilate
3. Yielded to pressure of chief priest and crowd
4. Pilate condemned Jesus to be crucified
IV. The Crucifixion and Death on Good Friday (only for
foreigners, not Roman citizens)
A. The Scourging – early morning
1.flesh torn from the body,
2.mocked,
3.crown with thorns
4.ridiculed by Roman soldiers as “King of the Jews”
B. Nailed to the Cross
1.Carries his cross to Golgotha = “place of the skull”
2.Helped by Simon of Cyrene
3.Stripped & nailed to the cross
4.Hung for several hours, death by suffocation
5.Called out “My God, my God, why have you
forsaken me” 22 Psalm
6.Only several women, his Mother and John stayed
with Him
C. Love and Trust from the Cross
1. Prayed for those who put him to death
2. Yielded himself over in trust to God
3. Perfect love for all humankind
4. Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate if he could bury the body
a) Not anointed, it was beginning of the Sabbath
5. Who killed Jesus
a) Certain Jewish leaders conspired with Rome
b) Most Jews NOT against him
c) Church error lead to Anti-Semitism, prejudice against
Jews
Bible Work
Document #1
1. What are Jesus last words?
2. What time did he say these words?
a.
Mark 15:34
1 pt
1pt
Three o’clock
3. What psalm is Jesus referring to?
a.
2pt
Psalm 22
4. What language is Jesus speaking?
2pt
a. Aramaic
5. What type of psalm is this?
a.
2pt
Lament psalm
6. Why does Matthew change a word into Hebrew? 3pt
a.
b.
More related to the following verse about Elijah
BETTER Matthew is proving the Hebrews connection that Jesus is the messiah
Video clips
• Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)Gethsemane 6 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3mFBh2z9sc
• Stations of the cross :: Jesus is beaten and crowned only up to 1:39
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-6TPIo1F9o
Review Section 2
• What did Jesus agonize about while praying in the Garden of
Gethsemane?
• How did he resolve his struggle
• Who was responsible for the death of Jesus?
• Describe the kind of suffering that Jesus probably endured in the
Crucifixion.
• Jesus’ last words according to:
• Mark 15:34
• Luke 23:34
• Luke 23:46